The Future in Person: A Student Member's View of ASIS&T 2003

摘要

Astudent member's view of her first ASIS&T conference may not carry the weight of decades of experience, but there is still a place for the vision of those too new to the field to believe there are things that cannot be done. This essay outlines a coordinated view of some of the technologies, theories and methods presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Long Beach, California, during the week of October 19-22, 2003. This view reflects perhaps 25% of the ideas presented. Such, alas, is the effect of concurrent sessions. My interest lies in assisting those who are facilitating complex processes ranging from city planning and industrial ecology to global conflict negotiation, public health and international development. I have included those ideas and sessions that seem to contribute to the dream of a system for integrating research from different fields-a system that will effectively serve the multi-disciplinary information needs of these urgent and complex problems.